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Joan Williams Leslie article on Caribbean voyage aboard Harvey Gamage, 95âft gaffârigged Maine schooner; illus (M)
Article on North Shore University Hospital's outpatient pilot program that offers cancer patients alternative to hospitalization; project was conceived by Dr Vincent Vinciguerra and Dr Thomas Degnan and is financed by Don Monti Memorial Research Foundation; illus (L)
Several historic homes in NJ have been decorated for Christmas holiday season in way in which they might have been decorated when families lived in them; some houses described (M)
STAMFORD RACIAL relations in suburban communities have been drawn into the headlines in recent months with scattered incidents of cross burnings places like Norwalk and Ridgefield and efforts by the Ku Klux Klan to attract attention in Danbury — as well as incidents in other parts of the New York metropolitan area.
White House rejects NYS Gov Hugh Carey's plea to sot up emergency board to end LIRR strike; reports that it has no intention of intervening immediately, saying 'our preference is for negotiated settlement through National Mediation Board'; under Railway Labor Act, strikers must return to work when an emergency board is named; illus (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 5, 1979, covering December 9, 1979.
Eagles
Donna Summer
Styx
Stevie Wonder
Led Zeppelin
1979Olivia Lufkin, Japanese-American singer-songwriter[â ]
Olivia Lufkin, known professionally as Olivia, is a Japanese singer and songwriter. Lufkin began her solo career after singing in the Japanese girl group D&D. She gained mainstream success in 2006 after creating songs for the fictional band Trapnest under the alias "Olivia Inspi' Reira (Trapnest)." The songs were used for the popular anime adaptation of Nana.
1979Stephen McPhail, Irish footballer[â ]
Stephen John Paul McPhail is an Irish former professional footballer and the sporting director of Shamrock Rovers in the League of Ireland Premier Division. A play-making central midfielder, McPhail started his career at Leeds United in the Premier League. He subsequently found success at Cardiff City, making over 150 appearances and being part of their promotion-winning 2012â13 Football League Championship side. McPhail was capped ten times for the Republic of Ireland national team, scoring one goal.
1979Aiko Uemura, Japanese skier[â ]
Aiko Uemura is a Japanese freestyle skier. She participates in moguls and dual moguls.
1979Fulton J. Sheen, American archbishop (born 1895)[â ]
Fulton John Sheen was an American Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Rochester from 1966 to 1969. He was known for his preaching, especially on television and radio.
1979The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first of only two diseases that have been driven to extinction (with rinderpest in 2011 being the other).[â ]
Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by Variola virus, which belongs to the genus Orthopoxvirus. The last naturally occurring case was diagnosed in October 1977, and the World Health Organization (WHO) certified the global eradication of the disease in 1980, making smallpox the only human disease to have been eradicated to date.
In 1979, the world population was approximately 4,368,539,528 people[â ]